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Free: (kind of) works
When brother Johnny left for the west he left his vacuum cleaner with us. After a few years of solid service, it’s stopped sucking in things to the extent that it’s no longer helpful to our family...
View ArticleThe House of Bishops Dinner
One of the fringe benefits of relocating my office to the basement of St. Paul’s Anglican Church Parish Hall is that I have a front row seat to the workings of the church; it’s not quite a back-stage...
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J. Herbin Eyedropper Pen, Take One
A couple of months ago at Pen Night we received a tutorial on converting fountain pens to become “eyedropper pens,” where the entire barrel of the pen is used to hold the ink, rather than a cartridge...
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How I Save Bookmarks
Ton asks“What do you use for bookmarking? How do you use bookmarks?”I have three systems I’ve settled into.Email myself a linkWhen I’m reading an article on my mobile that I want to return to in the...
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"where to work better"
From David Noel’s Friday’s Five newsletter, a photo of a Vitra“manifesto” about workplaces. My favourite is “nowhere.”(If you are ever in metropolitan Basel, a visit to Vitra is a must).Vitra | Basel |...
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Phil Nash and Jeremy Keith Save the Safari Video Playback Day
Jeremy Keith writes of issues with Safari, video and service workers, and in doing so helped to solve a perplexing mystery for me: a while ago I noticed that videos I posted here, like, say, the one in...
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Bill McFadden for Mayor
Bill McFadden has heretofore been notable to me primarily for his ubiquity: he is one of a small cast of people whose path I seem to cross several times a day while making my way around downtown...
View ArticleFrank's English
Frank chimes in with his own thoughts on bookmarks practice and includes a description of his blogging that comes as close to my own as I’ve come across:My blog has always been this wunderkammer, a...
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Installation Installation
Catherine has a piece in the show that’s opening tomorrow night at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. As it’s a complicated, delicate piece that’s to be mounted high in the air, its installation has...
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Ian Petrie on Farming and Relationships
From Ian Petrie, delivering the McRobie Lecture (as syndicated by Citizens Alliance News):The thing about relationships… and this gets us back to Schumacher… is that people who care for each other’s...
View ArticleAnd what comes after Albania?
About 20 years ago I developed a taste for around-the-world travelogues; the first was Who Needs a Road? and I continued through Half-Safe, First Overland, Away from My Desk, Offbeat in Asia, In the...
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"Lists of Life"
Catherine’s piece Lists of Life is part of the exhibition Who’s Your Mother? Women Artists of P.E.I., 1964 to the Present that opened last night at the Confederation Centre of the Arts.One of the...
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Branch Number, Transit Number, Institution Number, Account Number: What are...
I encountered the following fields on a government form required to set up electronic payments and I couldn’t figure out what each meant:This seems to happen every time I am asked for this information;...
View ArticleUnsocial
Bringing a process that I started 18 months ago to a close, I deleted my @ruk Twitter and Instagram accounts entirely last night.Although I’d stopped posting to either a long time ago, I was still...
View ArticlePractice Under Duress
From a post about how to ace an interview with venture capitalists:4. Practice the interview under extreme circumstancesA friend of mine whose wife recently got accepted into YC shared a hilarious but...
View ArticleAlanna Jankov for Ward One
Alanna Jankov is running for Charlottetown City Council Ward One–our downtown ward–and I’m going to vote for her.Alanna and I worked beside each other for many years when my office was on the second...
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New Mac Mini Ordered
When I was at Yankee Publishing a couple of weeks ago, working with my MacBook Air plugged into an external monitor, I realized that very rarely do I have call to use my laptop as a laptop: 99% of the...
View ArticleEpic Haircut
Actual conversation with my barber this afternoon:Barber: So you just want a trim and keep it pretty long?Me: No, you can take a lot off. Off my collar, over my ears, out of my eyes.Barber: But you...
View ArticleNew API Endpoint for PEI Wind
If you’ve been following along over the years, you’ll recall that back in 2012, thanks to the imaginative efforts of a coder deep inside the provincial government, a JSON feed of Prince Edward Island’s...
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